Sentences with phrase «boreal forest habitats»

Several oil sands operators launched pilot programs to explore the restoration of boreal forest habitat as a means of creating offset credits.

A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 11 provides evidence for the prevalent hypothesis that these fluctuations are linked with climate shifts that result in changes in seed production in these species» boreal forest habitat in northern Canada.

Not exact matches

The most significant shortcoming in the Plan may be that it allows for significant continued industrial logging in already excessively disturbed critical habitat for woodland caribou in the boreal forest.

Toohey said the two studies strongly suggest that permafrost loss is leading to massive changes in hydrology within the Arctic and boreal forests that may have consequences for the carbon cycle, fish and wildlife habitat and other parts of the ecosystem.

Some 500,000 acres of boreal forest in Ontario and Alberta alone — key habitat for caribou, lynx, wolves and scores of birds — are felled each year to provide pulp for disposable paper.

Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) populations have decreased by about 95 % in the last fifty years, but the reasons are not well understood; it doesn't help that their preferred breeding habitat, stunted conifers deep in the wetlands of the boreal forest, makes finding and studying them difficult.

The findings show that the Ellesmere Protarctos lived in a northern boreal - type forest habitat, where there would have been 24 - hour darkness in winter, as well as about six months of ice and snow.

Birds from every habitat — from boreal forests to subtropical islands — will have to adapt to the shifts in their already compromised habitat.

Ecological responses to forest age, habitat, and host vary by mycorrhizal type in boreal peatlands — Peter G. Kennedy — Mycorrhiza

«A new wildlife paradigm is emerging in North America's boreal forests... Edward Struzik's deft account interweaves reportage, science and policy to show how fires that are normally key to ecological resilience are growing bigger and faster, thawing permafrost, degrading watersheds and disrupting habitats of species from grizzly bears to fungi.»

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»

This lookalike little cousin of the Greater Yellowlegs currently nests in and around tree line habitat and open boreal forests across Alaska and Canada.

The renewal of Boreal and Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest will help contribute to maintaining High Conservation Values identified by the proponent and thus provide various species with the contiguous forest habitat they require for surForest will help contribute to maintaining High Conservation Values identified by the proponent and thus provide various species with the contiguous forest habitat they require for surforest habitat they require for survival.